How and Why to Start A Startup - Sam Altman & Dustin Moskovitz - Stanford CS183F: Startup School

welcome uh this is CS 183f thank you all for coming uh we'll hope to make it a really great class so uh we're going to try to teach you the what you need to know for the first 100 days of a startup basically how do you go from a very raw idea um to a company and we've uh I'm

the president of w combinator my name is Sam Alman I've been teaching this people for a while uh and so hopefully we'll be able to um make this make a lot of sense um today our guest speaker besides me is Dustin moskovitz Dustin uh was the CTO uh is was the co-founder of Facebook and

CTO and vpf Engineering I just learned and is now the co-founder and CEO of as um Dustin gave a talk at the first version of this class that is still the one I refer other people to the most and it's about uh why to start a startup which is actually a really important

question and one that people don't think about enough so he was kind enough to come back and do that again so if you're here today you're watching the video later uh you're probably planning to start a company that's why you're taking the course and most of the class is going to be about like how to

go about doing that and achieving success uh but before you dive into the how of being an entrepreneur I'm here to help you think about the why uh so it's important to know which reason is yours so that you think through this this uh the decision correctly so I hear a variety of common motivators from uh

potential entrepreneurs um but I found that once they fully considered the trade-off they often decide that starting a company is is n actually the best way to achieve their goals uh so I'll hope you make sure you're choosing the best solution and I'll also explain the reason I like to hear best from people about why they